Living with the Stars – Episode 20 – The Oxford Comment

The Oxford Comment

Everything is connected. Animals and asteroids, bodies and stardust, heartbeats and supernovas—all of these arise from a common origin to form the expanse of the universe, the fiber of our being. So say our guests of this month’s Oxford Comment, Karel Shrijver, an astronomer who studies the magnetic fields of stars, and Iris Schrijver, a physician and pathologist, both of whom draw upon their expertise to uncover new dimensions of understanding.

We sat down for a captivating discussion with the co-authors of Living with the Stars: How the Human Body is Connected to the Life Cycles of the Earth, the Planets, and the Stars, delving into the history of the universe and the miraculous systems at work both within us and all around us.

Karel Schrijver is an astronomer who studies magnetic fields of stars of all ages, in particular the magnetism of the star central to our own planetary system: the Sun. He observes the effects of the Sun’s magnetism in the ever-changing solar atmosphere using space-based observatories, and follows those effects from the Sun to the planets around it where they result in what is known as space weather.

Iris Schrijver is a physician and professor of Pathology and Pediatrics at Stanford University, where she directs the diagnostic Molecular Pathology laboratory and provides patient care by diagnosing inherited conditions and by diagnosing and following therapy responses of cancer-related changes in the DNA.

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